<h1 class="clr">Spanish air crash kills at least 45</h1> <div id="bd"><div id="yui-main"><div class="yui-b">ITN - 51 minutes ago <p class="first">A passenger plane has crashed on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing at least 45 people and seriously injuring 19.</p><div id="an_lrec_ad"><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,sans-serif; text-align: center">(Advertisement) </div></div> However, a source for the emergency services reported about 150 fatalities, saying: "They are pulling out burnt corpses. The plane has been completely destroyed."</p> The national government's office in Madrid said at least 19 people are seriously hurt while 35 were unharmed. Dozens of emergency vehicles are at the scene.</p> A large cloud of smoke billowed at Terminal Four from the remains of flight JK5022's MD82 jet for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.</p> There were 166 passengers and six crew onboard, according to Scandianvian airline SAS, which owns Spanair and has been trying to sell it since last year.</p> SAS said: "The aircraft, an MD-82, was en route from Madrid to Las Palmas when the accident occurred, at 14:23 hours local time. We can confirm that there were 166 passengers and six crew onboard."</p> Dozens of shocked relatives began arriving at Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria, where they were whisked into a room away from the press and comforted by Red Cross psychiatrists.</p> There was no immediate official comment on the cause of the accident but the newspaper El Mundo quoted a source on its website as saying the plane's left engine had caught fire.</p><ul class="clr"><li class="email"><font color="#003399">Email Story</font><li class="im"><font color="#003399">IM Story</font><li class="prnt"><font color="#003399">Printable View</font><li class="blog"><font color="#003399">Blog This</font> [/list]</div></div></div>
know it is'nt funny, but we fly out on holiday sunday and r'lass is absolutely terrified of flying, i usually send her youtube links of crashes a couple o days to before to calm her nerves that'll do for starters
